The secret songs of giant beavers | Science News for Kids

“It’s a great lesson that if you take a modern animal and scale it up, you’d be wrong,” Larry Flynn told Science News. Flynn, who did not work on the new giant beaver study, studies ancient rodents at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. He told Science News that the giant beaver looked puny when compared with some of the other large rodents alive at the time.